Season

Dec 14, 2008
Hank completes his biography of Lew Ashby. Mia departs LA for her cross-country book tour. Sonja gives birth to a baby who is decidedly not Hank's. Fortunately, Julian steps up to the plate. Charlie is reduced to working at a BMW dealership in the valley. After Daisy reveals that she slept with another guy, Charlie expresses his regret to an unsympathetic Marcy. Karen decides to take a job in New York City — the family can finally relocate back home. Hank and a heartsick Becca are thrilled. But when Becca and Damien patch things up and she decides she wants to remain in LA, Hank decides to stay behind for his daughter.

Dec 7, 2008
To celebrate the release of Mia's book, Ashby hosts a soiree at the manor. At the party, Karen reveals to Hank that she hasn't read Mia's book. Back from rehab, Marcy tries to avoid the powdered temptation all around her. Becca is devastated when she discovers Damien making out with another girl. And, after spotting Daisy with Ronny Praeger, Charlie tells Marcy he wants a divorce. Later, just as the madness is winding down, Janie Jones arrives. As Ashby tries to work up the courage to go downstairs to see her, he does a line of some very bad coke.

Nov 30, 2008
While Hank nervously awaits the results of his biopsy, he reflects on his relationship with Karen, and we flashback to the beginning of their stormy union — an event that coincides with the tragic overdose of a famous grunge rocker. Meanwhile, Daisy tells Charlie that she's moving out, but Charlie doesn't want to let her go.

Nov 23, 2008
Hank meets Janie Jones for a date at a Venice art gallery, where they bump into a very pregnant Sonja and Julian. After a quick escape, Janie invites Hank back to her place, but he declines. Karen goes on an impromptu date, of sorts, with Lew Ashby. She returns home to find Hank waiting with the big news that he did not sleep with another woman. And, after a congratulatory roll in the sack, Karen finds a disturbing lump on Hank's groin. Meanwhile, with Marcy in rehab, Charlie is left to hold down the fort at her waxing salon. And he and Daisy bond over Dirty Dancing.

Nov 16, 2008
Hank spends the day at the home of Janie Jones trying to get the back story on her relationship with Lew Ashby. When Janie's husband comes home early, Hank is forced to bide his time in the pool house with the Jones family maid, Rosario. When Karen learns that Mia is having an affair with Ashby, she races to his house to confront him but winds up having a tender heart-to-heart with the legendary producer instead. Meanwhile, Charlie sends Marcy to her mother's house to detox and succumbs to temptation with Daisy.

Nov 9, 2008
Hank and Karen attend a parent-teacher conference at Becca's high school. Hank hits it off with the English teacher, Mrs. Patterson, only to discover that this latest possible conquest is also the mother of Becca's boyfriend Damien. Meanwhile, Charlie and Marcy take a frightened Daisy into their home. When Daisy's former manager shows up for reparations, Marcy is forced to reveal that she's spent their cash stash on cocaine, forcing Charlie's to hand over the keys to his prized convertible.

Nov 2, 2008
Hank decides to seek out Lew Ashby’s long lost love, Janie Jones. He discovers she’s now a Beverly Hills wife and mother.
Later, Hank accidentally walks in on Julian going at it with a rocker chick he's "mentoring". When Hank confronts Sonja about the discovery, she reveals that, much to her frustration, they have an open relationship.
Mia spends the day trailed by Rolling Stone reporter Annika Staley. After finagling their way into Ashby Manor, Hank takes a liking to Staley, but is shocked to discover Mia leaving Ashby’s bedroom later that night.
Meanwhile, when a location falls through, the Runkle residence is transformed into the set of Vaginatown. The lead actor’s failings force Charlie to step in for the money shot.

Oct 26, 2008
After getting dumped by Karen, Hank is relegated to living at Ashby Manor.
In order to distract Hank from his heartbreak, Ashby arranges a sex session with popular, yet incredibly annoying, celebrity chef, Chloe Metz.
Meanwhile, Charlie takes on a new client, Daisy, who’s eager to land the lead in a porn film called Vaginatown, a remake of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. Charlie meets with the film’s director, Ronny Praeger, and secures her the part, but only after investing $100,000 of his own savings.

Oct 19, 2008
Hank and Karen throw a dinner party for a few close friends: Charlie and Marcy, Ashby, Sonja, Julian and Mia. Becca and her new boyfriend Damien round out the group.
Before everyone arrives, Hank pops the question, but Karen begs off to think it over. At dinner, it’s revealed that Hank is the likely father of Sonja’s baby. Becca stands up to Julian, much to Hank’s delight. And Ashby nearly dies of an allergic reaction to sushi.
At the end of the evening, Karen decides that she can’t marry Hank.

Oct 12, 2008
On Hank’s first day as biographer to Lew Ashby, he’s reintroduced to Trixie, the hooker with a heart of gold, who stirs up trouble by claiming that Hank is better in bed than Ashby.
When Karen and Sonja meet to discuss a renovation project, Julian interrupts to work his guru magic on Karen.
Becca grudgingly starts her first day at Mia’s private school, where she meets an unexpected friend, Damien.
Meanwhile, Charlie spots one of Marcy’s clients, a porn actress named Daisy. While pitching himself as her agent, Charlie hops a ride with Daisy only to realize that he’s in the middle of an impromptu porn shoot.

Oct 5, 2008
Hank finds himself in jail after assaulting a mouthy police officer. Karen, still upset at Hank for his accident at the party, refuses to bail him out.
In prison, Hank is reintroduced to fellow inmate Lew Ashby, who proposes that Hank write Ashby’s long-awaited biography. When Hank refuses, Ashby bails them both out and tells Hank a story of the girl he loved and lost.
Meanwhile, Charlie gets fired after his former assistant, Dani, plays the agency president a montage of Charlie’s self-pleasuring office sessions.

Sep 28, 2008
After reuniting at the end of Season One, Hank and Karen decide to pack up and head to New York. As part of the reconciliation, Hank undergoes a grueling vasectomy at Karen's request.
That night, Hank and Karen meet Charlie and Marcy for drinks. They wind up bumping into Sonja, the vomiting Scientologist from season one, who’s now pregnant, and her new boyfriend Julian, a renowned self-help guru.
The group heads to a party at the home of legendary record producer Lew Ashby, where Hank has an accident when he confuses a partygoer for Karen. On the ride home, Hank gets arrested for driving under the influence and assaulting an officer.

About This Show

Summary

Sophisticated and unique, this comedy centers on novelist Hank Moody who struggles to raise his 13-year-old daughter, while still carrying a torch for his ex-girlfriend Karen. His obsession with truth-telling and self-destructive behavior -- drinks, drugs and relationships -- are both destroying and enriching his career.